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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · 16d

It’s the third!! 😆 The first one was with Diana and I in 2022 and the second with Arun and I. 😉 Very happy to be teaching it again!

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Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 16d

🚀 Just kicked off the 2nd edition of Population Genomics using ancient DNA data with @arunsethuraman.bsky.social & @cegamorim.bsky.social 🧬💻

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#aDNA #populationgenomics #paleogenomics

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Graciela Cabana @gscabana.bsky.social · 26d

If you are post-PhD 🎓 and interested in biological anthropology 🧬🦠🦴💀, consider becoming a "Faculty Scholar" in the AABA IDEAS Program!

IDEAS = Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Biological Anthropology

Check out the link below 👇

The IDEAS Program - AABA

AABA 2026 IDEAS PROGRAM The AABA IDEAS Program provides a team, a space, and a suite of activities to engage issues of scholarship, professional preparation, […]

bioanth.org

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SMBE IDEA taskforce @smbe-idea.bsky.social · 28d

🌍✨ SMBE IDEA 2026 – Call for Proposals!

We support initiatives that tackle inequities in evolutionary biology.

Funding available:
💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

📅 Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1we2...

IDEA Initiatives

SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Task Force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and other exclusion in our society. SMBE DIVERSITY STATEMENT Our goa...

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · Sep 5

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · Sep 5

Any online, free teaching resources using the UCSC Genome Browser? 🧬

I’m preparing a class for seniors and MSc students from different fields of bio. I’m looking for exercises that students can take on their own to explore the genome browser and learn about genomics.

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Laura Vilà Valls @lvilavalls.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to share our new preprint🙌
It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social

medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sudan's complex genetic admixture history drives adaptation to malaria in Sudanese Copts https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.25334828v1

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Silu Wang (she/her)🇨🇦 @siluwang.bsky.social · Aug 30

Why do speciation rates vary across the tree of life?
Some of the best yet most underappreciated places for this investigation are natural hybrid zones.
This preprint takes you to the hybrid zones in the origin of species to find a clue. 👉 shorturl.at/N7FXE
#Speciation #Evolution #hybridization

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Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志 @chasewnelson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Announcing SimHumanity, a baseline SLiM 5.0 model of the full human genome, replete with demographic history, autosomes, X/Y, and mtDNA. A shared starting point for reproducible evolutionary simulations. We’d love your feedback! #SLiM #evolution #genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution

The reconstruction of human evolutionary history has undergone repeated advances, each made possible by methodological innovations. In recent decades, genetic and genomic data played a central role in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Federico Sánchez Quinto @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social · Aug 28

Este trabajo sólo fue posible gracias al entusiasmo, dedicación y extraordinario trabajo de estudiantes e investigadores de la UNAM y el INAH, quienes combinamos nuestro conocimiento en paleontología y paleogenómica. @paleogenomics.bsky.social Esta trabajo es importante por muchas razones: 👇 3/N

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · Aug 31

Congratulations!!!

Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · Aug 29

🩸🧬 Anyone using *dried blood spot* kits for collecting samples?

The kits we are currently using yield low DNA concentrations. I would appreciate recommendations for more reliable kits or suggestions on how to optimize our protocol to improve yield.

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Kara Cerveny @kara-cerveny.bsky.social · Aug 27

Come be my colleague! We are hiring for two tenure-track positions. www.reed.edu/dean_of_facu...

Tenure-Track Positions in Functional Genomics/Genetics and Systems Biology - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed College

www.reed.edu

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just been reminded that this was published about a month ago - a new (3rd) edition of The Archaeology of Britain. Very chuffed to be a co-author of a chapter on the middle and late Neolithic. Add it to your student intro reading lists! www.routledge.com/The-Archaeol...

The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century

The Archaeology of Britain provides an up-to-date introduction to the archaeology of Britain from the reoccupation of the landmass by Homo sapiens during the later stages of the most recent Ice Age un...

www.routledge.com

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · Aug 21

Me promoting the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament at #eseb2025! ghi.st
Population geneticists: join, compete, earn cash, become an author, learn, help the community! ghi.st

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Amanda Amodeo @aaamodeo.bsky.social · Aug 14

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined).

Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.

apply.interfolio.com/171625

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Aug 13

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*!

*mainly Britain.

crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

(Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist

Salary for this Role: LRS level from £36,535 per annum plus benefits SLRS level from £45,700 per annum plus benefits Job Title: (Senior) Laboratory Research Scientist - Bioarchaeologist Reports to: Po...

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · Aug 13

I really enjoyed finally meeting you and am glad we connected here on bluesky! 😄

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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · Aug 11

Re-upping this! @arunsethuraman.bsky.social and I are offering this 5-day online workshop via @physaliacourses.bsky.social. Please check the link below.

EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 24

Join our online course "Population Genomics Using Ancient DNA Data" (Sept 22-26) focused on aDNA analysis in genomics. Limited seats available! Details: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/adna-popgen/ #course

Population genomics using ancient DNA data

22nd-26th September 2025

www.physalia-courses.org

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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · Aug 2

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · Jul 25

In #GENETICS, Williams et al. present a novel statistics—haplotype score—for summarizing identity-by-descent (IBD) sharing that can distinguish half-sibling pairs from avuncular or grandparent-grandchildren pairs and assign individuals to ancestor vs descendant generation.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · Jul 24

Re-upping this! @cegamorim.bsky.social and I are stoked to be offering this workshop. Do join us!

EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 24

Join our online course "Population Genomics Using Ancient DNA Data" (Sept 22-26) focused on aDNA analysis in genomics. Limited seats available! Details: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/adna-popgen/ #course

Population genomics using ancient DNA data

22nd-26th September 2025

www.physalia-courses.org

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